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Back to the Mansion…
This isn’t Dr. Curien’s Mansion The Mansion of Hidden Souls hit the Saturn in early December 1994, barely a month after the Saturn launched on its epic – but fleeting…
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Feature articles, including game showcases, detailed retrospectives and reviews.
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Corpse Killer
The Perfect Halloween Game for those who have already played all the Good Halloween Games The 90s were a highly experimental time in gaming. The advanced power of 5th generation…
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The Case for Saturn Castlevania
1998 saw Konami undergo a Saturn renaissance of sorts, committing to release several of their bigger PlayStation hits onto SEGA’s machine – including the previous year’s blockbuster Castlevania: Symphony of…
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Exploring SEGA’s E3 1996 Show Floor
Over the years, the game industry has gotten much better about saving and archiving materials and data for future reference. However, that wasn’t always the case, with many pieces of…
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INTERVIEW ARCHIVE: David Warhol – RealTime Associates – Creators of BUG!
Original Recording Date: Friday Oct 4, 2019 In this interview from the SHIRO! ARCHIVE, we sit down with David Warhol, the president and founder of RealTime Associates (creators of BUG!…
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My Gaming Story: Part 1
Growing up in the 90’s was a blast! We witnessed the return of video games from a dire market crash and saw them flourish and go on to break the 3D barrier and beyond. It was a very exciting time in video game history, and I have many stories and mem…
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Every Saturn PAL Game That Didn’t Release in North America
PAL gamers traditionally have been seen as an oppressed group when it comes to missing out on video games that are released in other territories — cough North America cough….
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SegaXtreme’s 28th Anniversary SEGA Saturn Game Competition
NOTE: BE SURE TO CHECK BACK FOR NEW UPDATES & INFORMATION ! Another trip around the sun means another excellent showing of Saturn homebrew, patches and tools from our amazing…
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Bridget Bishop: A Charming Saturn Adventure
This little homebrew adventure game, Bridget Bishop, is one of those neat little surprises that seem to come out of nowhere. Much like 7Shades’ Cubecat, we didn’t really hear or…
Bo Bayles' Hacks & Cheats
Burning Rangers’ Password System – Reverse Engineered
Bo Bayles, software engineer and writer of Bo Bayles Annex has in the past expressed his deep appreciation for Sonic Team’s Burning Rangers, having explored the game extensively and written…
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UNREAL Demo on REAL Saturn Hardware
Saturn-wizard, XL2 and crew (Corvusdeux & Ponut) have stunned the fan community with a tech demo that many would have thought to completely impossible… ‘IRRÉEL’ features the first two levels…
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The Great SEGA Saturn Halloween Round-up
Ghoulish greetings, Shiromaniacs! It’s Halloween time again, and that means time to grease back your jet-black hair, light your dark candles, take out the Ouija board, and ask it what…
Interview
A Closer Look at Retro-Bit’s Wireless Analog Saturn Pads
Pat and I got a chance to sit down with the dudes (Ron, Rich & Andy) from Retro-Bit this past weekend at Portland’s Retro Gaming Expo, and we were able to get our hands on…
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Isekai Ojisan (Uncle from Another World): A Saturn Fan-Service
WARNING: While this article contains NO spoilers to the main story plot, it DOES contain images and “Easter eggs” that some might consider spoilers, so click away if you do…
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Sega Saturn Game BASIC Programming
This article has been re-published, with permission, from its original source. IntroPart 2: Hello, Saturn!Part 3: Set up a Game BASIC Development VMPart 4: Run, Load, and Save Programs via…
SHIRO! Video
Patrick Sucks At: Sonic 3 (On Sonic Jam)
Viewers decided I should try out Sonic 3, and unfortunately I’m not very good at it.. Thought I was pretty good back in the day, but viewers (And my skills)…
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Interview: Kenji Tosaki talks Saturn/Dreamcast Peripheral Design, Reveals “Virtua Visor”
While the Saturn had a variety of great controllers and peripherals, a vast majority would agree that the 3D Analog Control Pad was perhaps one of the greatest. Dreamcast also…
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SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2: MOVIE REVIEW
“SONIC 2 was so much fun! It was hilariously bonkers and not remotely grounded in reality.., which is great! The film is self-aware of its outlandish premise and rolls with…
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Interview with RetroRGB – SHIRO! SHOW #43
On this very special episode of the SHIRO! SHOW, SaturnDave sits down with RetroRGB to chat about the Saturn Game Competition, and just about gaming in general.Check out RetroRGB at:www.retrorgb.comhttps://www.youtube.com/user/retrorgbhttps://twitter.com…
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Bulk Slash English Localization Dev Blog #2: One character at a time
Hello! I hope you’re still enjoying the Bulk Slash English localization patch and have had a chance to unlock and level up some of your favorite navigators. Let us know…
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SEGA Saturn 27th Anniversary Game Competition
NOTE: BE SURE TO CHECK BACK FOR NEW UPDATES & INFORMATION ! As another year passes and we close the book on 2021, we at SHIRO! are absolutely psyched for…
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Bulk Slash English Localization Dev Blog #1: New beginnings and the trouble with subtitles
Hi everyone! I’m Greg, known in some circles as “Lacquerware,” and I was the project lead for the Bulk Slash unofficial English localization patch. The good guys at Shiro have…
SHIRO! Video
VIDEO RELEASE: Bulk Slash Fan Translation – An Innovation in Saturn Fan Translations
After many months of waiting (And years of only being able to play in Japanese), Bulk Slash finally has an English Localization that makes the game 100% playable and understandable…
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In The Works: Wireless 3D Pad Mod
If you don’t spend much (or any) time on Facebook these days, you might not be aware of a new and intriguing project that has been underway over the past…
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NEW Saturn Platformer “ZYGO”
With SegaXtreme’s Game Competition right around the corner (celebrating Saturn’s 27th Anniversary), submissions are already starting to trickle in, and one of the first to be submitted for consideration is…
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Hitachi Wide View C24-WX50: Saturn’s Widescreen Display
DID YOU KNOW?: In addition to pushing the Saturn hardware with it’s release of the Hi-Saturn Navi w/LCD attachment, Hitachi also made a 24″ standard definition anamorphic CRT (the Hitachi…
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Sakura Wars 25 Years Later, and How To Play The Games as Western Fans!
25 years ago, SEGA and Red Company brought the love and war RTS/Dating Sim/Visual Novel series Sakura Wars into the world for the first time on Saturn!First conceptualized in 1990…
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NEXT GENERATION: THE COMPLETE SATURN STORY
In the mid-’90s, NEXT GENERATION Magazine, also known as “EDGE” in the UK, brought loads of insightful news and industry coverage to the average gaming consumer. From developer interviews to…
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SCAVENGER: A Grand Vision, A Crushing Loss…
Scavenger was one of the most exciting game development houses to come out of the mid-90’s. Formed from the roots of the amiga hacking and demo scene, their Zyrinx team…
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DTS: The SEGA Developer’s ‘Game Mag’
Those who know me well are probably aware of my slight obsession with SEGA and Saturn-related gaming magazines… I suppose I’m just a big history nerd, and these old rags…
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CyberSound: Saturn’s Musical Middleware
SHIRO! SHOW Recap Out of the box, Saturn offered incredible sound hardware, enabling musicians and sound designers to create complex and multi-layered tracks. It’s custom Yamaha YMF292 (aka Saturn Custom Sound…
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Developer Interview: 7shades on “Cubecat”
SHIRO! SHOW Recap Every community has its high profile members… You know, the ones who become something of a “household name”, for projects that push homebrew development forward? These are…
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Developer Interview: Dr. Emerald Nova
While the Saturn Homebrew scene is still in it’s relative ‘infancy’ compared to other existing homebrew development communities (take the Mega Drive or Dreamcast for example), it’s had a bit…
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Sega Saturn 3D Showcase, Part IV
Welcome to the fourth and final installment on our series on SEGA Saturn videogames with notable or impressive 3D graphics involving either polygons or bitmap sprites. This list includes software…
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Sakura Wars – One of SEGA’s Hidden Gems
SHIRO! SHOW Recap In the early 2000s, anime fans encountered an anime called Sakura Wars, a twenty-six episode anime or four episode ova that mixed pilotable robots (mechs), demons, a…